merc460
Regular Member
I found something thanks to a thread bump from someone else that would (I think) be GREAT for a public relations pamphlet.
It was posted by "gogodawgs" and I think it is really a soft but very direct way getting the point across......
I think this would be a GREAT start, an edited variant of this would be perfect. Since a lot of people instantly relate gun=bad, but if they could relate a neighbor, friend, barber, baseball coach they have known to be a upstanding person was pro2A then they would be more apt to listen with an open mind.
Just my thoughts.
It was posted by "gogodawgs" and I think it is really a soft but very direct way getting the point across......
gogodawgs said:MILLIONMOMMARCH wrote:
To many of you people suddenly go beserk and stark shooting everyone.
For the last 20 years, I have stood next to you in line at the grocery store, at the coffee shop and while picking up my daughters from school. We have said hello, talked about the news of the day. I was the PTA President for a couple of years. You know me, and I am a kind, nice, gentle man who is considerate and thoughtful. You know that I have never and will never go 'beserk'. What you don't realize is that for the last 20 years is that I have concealed a handgun just inches from you and nothing has ever happened. Last year I began taking my jacket off and have come out of the closet. I will not hide from you or deceive you anymore, I have a firearm on my hip everyday.
I have never been a police officer, I have never been in the military, I am an American citizen and I have the right and responsibility to take care of myself from the millions of criminals that prey on citizens.MILLIONMOMMARCH wrote:
Only police should have guns!
I don't 'get drunk', I have never done drugs, perhaps you are referring to people who are already criminals. I am an optimist and I don't have 'a bad day', I live with great optimism and love life, that is why I am so adamant in protecting mine.MILLIONMOMMARCH wrote:
That is untill you get drunk, do drugs and then kill you wife and other people. All because you had "a bad day".
I can assure you I am not mentally ill, that is part of the background check that takes place to obtain my Concealed Pistol License. I am not violent either, I have never been in a fight or been aggressive towards anyone.MILLIONMOMMARCH wrote:
mentaly ill that you feel you need a gun!
MILLIONMOMMARCH wrote:
realy makes me mad is the people that are "open carrying"!
You are not police so stop acting like one and intimidating people in the public!
I will open carry because I am tired of living in the closet, people like you should know that upstanding men and women that you know and have known for 20 years own and carry firearms to protect themselves.
I have never and will never act like police. Their jobs are extremely tough, they seek out criminals and I seek to avoid criminals. When criminals seem me open carrying they avoid me and leave, let's keep it that way. I do not intimidate people in public, I go about my life just the same as I did for the last 20 years next to you at the grocery store, I just do so now with my jacket off.
Again, I have known you for the last 20 years and you have known me. I challenge you to have an open mind and an open heart and embrace those who love themselves and their families enough to take on the serious responsibility of self defense. I doubt that you have an open mind as expressed by your intolerance. Your social bigotry is a sad state of your ignorance and your inability to process the facts of gun ownership over the emotional garbage that you and the Brady Bunch spew to the American people.
However, I will still smile and be nice, kind, polite and professional when we talk about our kids at the local coffee shop.
I think this would be a GREAT start, an edited variant of this would be perfect. Since a lot of people instantly relate gun=bad, but if they could relate a neighbor, friend, barber, baseball coach they have known to be a upstanding person was pro2A then they would be more apt to listen with an open mind.
Just my thoughts.